Please don't spend this holiday season. Support the troops don't shop!

[Sara Beverley]

We just keep feeding this bear and the bear keeps getting bigger and bigger.

[Beaverhausen]

1. How does not shopping help the troops?

How does slowing our economy, putting businesses out of business help anyone?

[Modem Butterfly]

2. I would think it would make things worse

Bread and circuses, after all. The Rethugs would need more of a distraction that way.

[el_gato]

3. by hastening the day when reconciliation has to take place

maybe that's a little too complex for you

[zeemike]

4. It undermines the war

Less economy less revenue for the Treasury, less money to finance war.
Makes good sense to me. I don't know if it will work or not but I have stooped spending except for necessary items, and then I spend at local businesses.
Luckily for me that we have a locally owned grocery store.

[Career Prole]

9. Our economy?

It's their economy...we just feed it for them.
Then the economy feeds the Pentagon.

[Zan_of_Texas]

5. The troops should stop fighting.

It's time for the troops to realize they have been bamboozled. They are killing and being killed for a bogus war.

Support the country by spending less time shopping and more time getting our democracy back. If we get our democracy back, the US will spend less time bullying other nations, and more time supporting its own citizens.

[fugue]

6. I'm patronizing only local small businesses

My biggest buy since Thanksgiving: a bunch of paperbacks from a local secondhand bookstore.

[Worst Username Ever]

7. I'm pretty sure dems work at those companies too.

I will be supporting them.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. For a lot of Americans I'm sure that won't be a problem,

not spending this holiday season. Not broke yet, but still not shopping, tho' I never really do that much holiday shopping anyway.